MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

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Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547.By 1570, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in the Spanish Navy Marines, in Naples, then a possession of the Spanish crown.

He went to the Battle of Lepanto. At the end of Lepanto he and his brother were prisioners and his family paid money to rescue them.

In 1607, he settled in Madrid, where he lived and worked until his death. He got married when he was 33.

Miguel de Cervantes received three bullets: two in the chest and one in the left arm. This shot disabled his left arm.

His masterpiece, Don Quixote, was published in 1605 when Miguel was 58.

Ten years later he finished the second part.

This book has been translated into more than 48 languages.

The final years of his life he wrote theatre, novel and poetry.

Cervantes died on 22 April 1616.

FACTS about CERVANTES• He was poor.• He was a stutterer.• Cervantes was called the “the one-handed of

Lepanto”• Shakespeare was his fan.• The church excommunicated him.• One part of Don Quixote was written in prison.• His tomb was found in Madrid in 2014.

Miguel de Cervantes wrote many books. He wrote:• Novel• Poetry • Theatre.

Alonso Quixano is a crazy man . He reads a lot of books about heroes and he thinks he is a heroic knight. Alonso also thinks he loves this princess named Dulcinea. The girl is Dulcinea, a girl in his town. He changes his name to Don Quixote, puts on an old armor, and goes out to find adventure.

DON QUIXOTE

Then, Don Quixote finds Sancho Panza to be his servant on his adventure. They go out and get in all sorts of trouble. Don Quixote mistakes windmills for big giants. Finally he realizes he is crazy and goes home.

CHARACTERSmajor

• Don Quixote: He´s the protagonist of the story. He´s crazy because he reads too many books about

knights.

• Sancho Panza: He´s the person who follows don Quixote. He´s the only character that exist both inside and outside of don Quixote´s world.

• Dulcinea del Toboso: She is the person Don Quixote is inlove with.

minorRocinante.

Dapple.Cide Hamete Benengeli.

The Duke and Duchess.Altisidora.

Sampson Carrasco.The priest.

The barber.Teresa Panza.

Cardenio.

Lucinda.Ferdinand.

Dorothea.Countess Trifaldi .

Gines de Pasamonte.Roque Guinart.

REALITY AND FANTASYREALITY

• The recolectors: o Francisco de Muñatoneso Jeronimo Comacho

• Toboso (people who live there)o Juana Gutierrezo Catalina Lorenzoo Sexton Pedro Martinez Cobo

• Villages:o Tobosoo Quintapar de la Orden o Alcalá de Henareso Tomellosoo Secuellanoso Pedro Muñoz

FANTASY

• Don Quixote, from reading novels of chivalry he thinks that he is a gentleman.

• He does adventures of chivalry to get the love of Dulcinea del Toboso.

• Dulcinea del Toboso, was a mop.• The horse of Don Quixote called Rocinante, was an old horse.• In the inn that Don Quixote thought it was a castle, he was

called a gentleman.• The windwills were giants.